tool: ae (application executive)

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Language:	C
Version:	2
Parts:	interpreter
Author:	Brian Bliss <bliss@convex.com>
Location:	ftp://sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu/pub/CSRD_Software/APPL_EXEC/
Description:	ae (the "application executive") is a C interpreter library which is compiled with an application; hence, the interpreter exists in the same process and address space. it includes a dbx symbol table scanner to access compiled vars & routines, or you can enter them manually by providing a type/name declaration and the address. when the interpreter is invoked, source code fragments are read from the input stream (or a string), parsed, and evaluated immediately. The user can call compiled functions in addition to a few built-in intrinsics, declare new data types and data objects, etc. Different input streams can be evaluated in parallel on alliant machines. Version 2 differs substantially in that the code fragments are read into an intermediate form before being evaluated, and can be stored in this form and then called from either user code or the interpreter. Version 2 also handles looping constructs (and the full C language), unlike version 1.
Ports:	SunOS (cc or gcc), Alliant FX, SGI (partial), Cray YMP (partial)
Updated:	July 18th, 1993

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